Democrats who plan on voting for Hillary Clinton instead of Bernie Sanders: Why?

Very very few people who study economics (I can't think of any prominent economists) are opposed to free trade.

First of all, to say anything meaningful about modern trade policy debates, simply being for or against 'free trade' itself doesn't say very much. Free trade is an abstract concept. What have actually being debated are actual trade agreements and trade policies. For the purposes of discussion I'll assume by "free trade" you mean the TPP or similar agreements.

If you really believe that no serious economists or experts oppose agreements like this, you really couldn't have looked very hard. Joseph Stiglitz has argued against them in any number of forums, as has Krugman who expressed "lukewarm" opposition. That's two Nobel Prize winning economists. The root of the dissonance between this fact and the conventional wisdom that "everybody agrees about free trade" is partly that such agreements have much less to do with about reducing trade barriers (which are already quite low) than they are about attacking regulation and extending IP monopolies. There are also significant concerns that a free trade agreement with i.e. China is not worth much if they can continue to manipulate their currency (a concern that no serious economist would dismiss). All of this underlines the point that your premise that there are no serious policy disagreements about trade policy is fundamentally flawed.

Even leaving aside policy specifics, the basic concept of absolutely unfettered free trade is a moral abomination. It means you're committing to economically supporting slavery, child labor, environmental destruction and any number of other arbitrarily evil things. It's arguably a moral imperative to institute trade barriers against countries that systematically engage practices like these, of which there are many.

The anti-slavery provision introduced to the TPP fast track, and the administration's intense pressure to remove it, demonstrates the relevance of these concerns, as does Warren's recent report documenting the US government's poor record enforcing the standards it has agreed to. The ugly truth is that real world "free trade" entails a significant amount of violence, both against people and the environment, that is simply not included in the idealized academic counterpart.

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